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Tradeweb launches swaps credit-checking service

Trading platform claims to be the first to offer electronic pre-trade credit checks for derivatives deals

Fixed-income trading platform Tradeweb Markets has launched a service allowing customers to speed up approvals of derivatives transactions before they are executed and pushed to central clearinghouses.

The previously undisclosed service went live last month, when a unit of JP Morgan Chase electronically gave a customer the green light to trade derivatives called interest-rate swaps, giving that trader instantaneous certainty that the transaction could go through and be cleared.

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